ERIKA AND KLAUS

Lotte Jacobi - Klaus and Erika Mann

Lotte Jacobi -

The avant-garde of the 20's had the curiosity and the courage to go beyond the conventional approaches in showing men and women and started to explore in depth what was obscure, ambiguous. male, Klaus Mann, female, Erika Mann. reversed roles: female looks like The photographer, Lotte Jacobi.

The shift of sexual traits in the photo suggests somehow a quest for androgyny unit..